Author: Carmen Maria Machado
Title: Her Body and Other Parties
Narrator: Amy Landon
Publication Info: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books (2017)
Summary/Review:
This collection of short stories uses tropes of horror – and particularly body horror – to relate the struggles faced by women and LGBTQ people. Stories include allowing the woman with the ribbon around her neck from an urban legend tell her life story and what seems to be a list of sexual partners growing into a story of a nationwide plague. One story is synopses of Law and Order: SVU episodes that grow increasingly absurd and macabre. That story, and some others, went on too long and I lost focus. But overall this is a creepy and sexy collection of stories.
Recommended books:
- Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
- Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
- What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi
Rating: ***
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